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Post by donk on Aug 19, 2010 7:02:24 GMT -5
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Post by donk on Aug 19, 2010 6:51:23 GMT -5
Magpie goose They're not all feral Helping the farmer muster the cattle Scrub bull My brother shooting goats Some old bangers(they still go) Some foxes Some bunnies 30 inch goat Some wild dogs Fishing for pigs, hahaha
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Post by donk on Aug 19, 2010 6:39:02 GMT -5
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Post by donk on Aug 19, 2010 6:32:35 GMT -5
From various trips, these are a few of the better ones. Barramundi Black jewfish Black jewie Another jewie Spanish mackeral Queenfish More barra Golden Snapper or Fingermark Bream Black tipped reef shark Fishing a river, see the crocs My mates boat A typical aussie set up. We call them 'utes', not pick-ups.
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Post by donk on Aug 19, 2010 6:26:13 GMT -5
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Post by donk on Aug 19, 2010 6:18:14 GMT -5
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Post by donk on Aug 19, 2010 5:23:17 GMT -5
Here's one we found up in the northern part of Oz - Green sea turtle. It was dead when we found it.
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Post by donk on Aug 19, 2010 4:19:31 GMT -5
I found this site while watching a clip on youtube about how to prepare antlers for a Euro mount. In the clip, you have to wait 3 months or so til the bugs do the work. The way I do it takes about 1.5-2 hours max.
I worked a whole deer season in Scotland a few years back and when all the clients 'heads' started piling up, I got the job of boiling/whitening the lot of them. I learnt how to do it from the head game keeper on our estate and he has been doing it for years. I reckon I did 40-50 heads in the couple of months the stag season went for. Here's a quick run down on what they do over there with a handy way of using peroxide.
Heads are simply chopped off the body, bottom jaw is removed(for ageing purposes) We then stick the tips of the antlers into the ground/lawn to provide a solid base so you can saw the skull at the desired angle. For a European mount, you start the cut on the top teeth nearest the nose and cut through the head, just under the eyes and continue through the skull. Just make sure what angle you do cut it at, that the antlers won't hit the wall afterwards. Ears are chopped off head, eyes are pierced and excess skin around top jaw trimmed.
Put heads with SKIN STILL ON, into a boiling pot/tub etc. After an hour or so, when the skin starts lifting cleanly at the back of the skull and from around the front of the nose, pull it out. DON"T over boil. Using a knife, cut up through the skin at the back of the skull towards both coronets, then simply grab the flap of skin you have created and pull it off in the direction of the nose. It should all come off very easily and in one go and leave bugger all on the skull. There should only be a bit of slimey stuff. We then used to clean up what was left with a pressure cleaner/gurnie to remove any meat, slime and slime froth from antlers. Once clean, the skull was put back into the boiling water for a minute or two to get hot again. When hot, we'd pull it out and using peroxide, straight from the bottle(not sure what % though) brush it on with a toothbrush making sure not to get any on the antlers themselves. Two coats of peroxide with the tooth brush was all we did to make the skulls nice and white. Keeping the skull hot when you do it makes the peroxide seep in better. Stand the head against the wall or shed and let it stand for 5 minutes or so as the peroxide will drain off it a bit. Grab your pressure cleaner or hose, give a quick hose down and you're done. My own 10 pointer from over there copped 5 coats of peroxide this way and it came up a treat. Hope that helps.
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Post by donk on Aug 19, 2010 3:59:35 GMT -5
I wrote this to my mates after one of my trips, I'll never forget this one.
G'day guys, Had another rostered week off last week and had a fishing trip organised with a few people from work and a dog. We left Darwin harbour around 8.30pm friday night and headed out to sea to try and catch some fish. The eskies were chockers with piss(6 cartons orta do it we thought) so we were set. An hour or so in, Janine(a sheila from work)hasn't yet got her sea legs(too much drink you see)so decides to have a kip laying down on the esky, a big 140 litre job, so plenty of room you'd think. Not long into her sleep, the waves of the ocean decide she has slept long enough and promptly knocks her off the esky onto the floor of the boat. While falling off, she smashed her head onto a smaller esky, her eye copping the full brunt of it. Almost instantly, she had a ripper of a bruise a boxer would be proud of dishing out. With her eye closing over and the whinging, we take her back in and drop her off at Blue's house, at a small community that is acroos the harbour from Darwin, but a good two hour drive away. We drop her off and two other blokes get off too. It now leaves Blue, Brad and myself plus Blue's dog Gunna on the boat, so we head out to get into some proper fishing. We catch a few decent golden snapper and a few little sharks. I remember catching a few, but I got too pissed and passed out down the back of the boat. I woke at day break and we're bloody miles away from darwin. Blue and Brad stayed up all night and we'd motored most of the night apparently. Straight into fishing and it's not long before we catch a few more. There is mention that a pub is probably open somewhere in the world, so the esky is open and we're into it again by about 6am. It doesn't take long to top ourselves up again and we're all having a merry time. We moved spots a few times and while setting the anchor down one time, I musta had one too many beers, because I basically followed the anchor straight into the water. It was a much needed swim coz it was stinking hot out there. I only remember the one swim, but the video camera tells a different story. My burnt, blistered and now flaking back tells a different story too. The day goes by without incident except for a few times when the boat took my feet out from under me causing me to try and panelbeat the boat with my head. They reckon one good panelbeating job I did sent me to sleep almost instantly. Things gradually got worse from here on in. I come to saturday arvo and we're heading back to darwin, our fishing trip over. The motor starts to surge and chug along for a bit, then nothing. After numerous attempts to start it, we check the fuel and find our problem. 160 litres, all gone. Lucky we had started to head back to darwin or we'd be bloody miles away. No phone reception, no radio reception, nothing, we are f..ked basically. We leave the anchor up and drift with the tide. We finally contact another boat somewhere out there who contacts the coast guard for us. They say they'll send a tow boat, but it'll cost us. We say no probs, just send the bloody thing. Darkness decends and we have a bite to eat expecting a rescue boat in a few hours. We try and sleep and all find a cramped spot to get in a few hours kip. I wake up in astonishment. A wave has whipped up and come over the back of the boat totally drenching me. Sleep doesn't come easy when you're soaking wet, cold and laying on wet carpet. I needn't have worried really, coz about two hours later, a storm whips up and we are in the middle of it. Three people and a dog don't really fit under a 3x3 foot centre console. The angle of the rain doesn't help and we are all soaking wet now. I gathered up some water from the console roof with an ice cream container and suck it down. Gee, it tastes funny. Barstards didn't tell me I was drinking out of the dogs container. It was about 1am by now and we're wondering where this bloody coast guard is. We try sleep again in soaked clothes and wet floor. The dog has now become hot property for some much needed warmth and Brad nabs it. With all the grog and probably the filthy dog water dish, I'm now outa bed putting some good fish burley over the side til there was no more burley left inside me. What a s..t night, really. Sunday morning comes and we check the GPS. We have drifted further out to sea. We wonder where our coast guard is, arseholes. We try contacting them, plus any other boats in the area, no good. After a few hours, a boat comes by and we wave them down. Four blokes going fishing aren't real keen to help us just yet. We'll go fishing first and get you on the way back, they say. We have no bargaining power and go back to sleeping on the wet floor til they come back, not before having a quick feed. That water must've still been playing havoc with me coz I soon had a heap of burley floating in the ocean again. Pity we had run out of bait a long time ago. We finally hear a boat motor at around midday. The 4 fishos had contacted a bigger boat and these guys had come to help us. They gave us two jerry cans full of fuel, asked for no money, phone numbers or anything. We got theirs and they went on their way. We finally got our boat going and headed for home. We were starving by this stage, rummaging through the esky to see what we had left. One lone Cherry ripe was found and Blue put it in the side of the boat. A minute later, we hear a crinkling noise and look down to find Gunna the dog hoeing into the Cherry Ripe, the little barstard. Poor bugger must've been starving though too. We make the boat ramp 19 hours later than planned and realise we still have all Janine's stuff, handbag, clothes, wallet, phone. The poor girl spent all weekend by herself with a monster black eye in a community and house she'd never been too before. She had hitched a lift into Darwin a fe whours before we got back. Turns out she fractured her eyesocket and is awaiting facial surgery. And, considering we drifted out at sea about 40 odd k's from land for 19 hours, got burnt, drunk, starved, spewed, rained on and only kept 4 fish, what a f..ked fishing trip.
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Post by donk on Aug 19, 2010 3:28:58 GMT -5
This one is a salty though, much bigger. We had him on for half an hour before he finally surfaced. We got him to the surface 3 times before he finally had enough and took off for good. We even got our lure back aswell, bonus.
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Post by donk on Aug 19, 2010 3:23:45 GMT -5
Haha, no worries hunterguy. Do you guys know why photobucket has deleted most of my pics?
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Post by donk on Aug 19, 2010 3:16:40 GMT -5
Cheers for the welcome boys. Hopefully I learn from you and you from me maybe. Does this count? hahaha, it's only a freshy I posted some deer and pig pics up, but photobucket have deleted a few for some reason, bugger. Will try resend them.
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Post by donk on Aug 18, 2010 7:14:39 GMT -5
They were all shot with my Sako 75 in .308. Generally using factory ammo in either Remington, Winchester or Federal 150 grns. Couple were 180 grns when I was after buffalo, but never saw a buff damn it.
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Post by donk on Aug 18, 2010 7:11:10 GMT -5
Haha, what happens on site, stays on site
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Post by donk on Aug 18, 2010 6:50:52 GMT -5
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